[He hums softly in acknowledgement, his eyes closing.]
I suspect she tries her best not to think about it. We discussed it once, but Isabela is . . . she prefers not to linger on topics that bring her grief. I suspect because she's had too much grief in her past, though she's never told me.
She knows generally what's to come. She betrayed our companion once; I informed her that she came back, making up for it. And she knows that the city is destroyed in a few years. But she has not asked for specifics, and I have not offered them.
[It's too recent, too raw, and he tries not to think about it too much either. There's no point to it, not here and now.]
So we live in the moment, and pretend as though this is simply another city in the Free Marches. Our last discussion involved finding a new regular bar to haunt; the only thing that distinguished it from a conversation at home was the agreement we would skip over the leather bars.
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I suspect she tries her best not to think about it. We discussed it once, but Isabela is . . . she prefers not to linger on topics that bring her grief. I suspect because she's had too much grief in her past, though she's never told me.
She knows generally what's to come. She betrayed our companion once; I informed her that she came back, making up for it. And she knows that the city is destroyed in a few years. But she has not asked for specifics, and I have not offered them.
[It's too recent, too raw, and he tries not to think about it too much either. There's no point to it, not here and now.]
So we live in the moment, and pretend as though this is simply another city in the Free Marches. Our last discussion involved finding a new regular bar to haunt; the only thing that distinguished it from a conversation at home was the agreement we would skip over the leather bars.